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BL
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1005960
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b760330
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| Main Entry
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Green, E. H. H.,1958-2006.
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| Title & Author
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The crisis of conservatism : : the politics, economics, and ideology of the Brtish Conservative Party, 1880-1914 /\ E.H.H. Green.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1995.
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xiv, 412 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0203985540
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: 0415012554
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: 041514339X
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: 9780203985540
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: 9780415012553
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: 9780415143394
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-404) and index.
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| Contents
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Part I. Questions of decline -- The political economy of decline -- Part II. The nature of the political problem -- Conservatism and the Empire -- Conservatism and the propertied -- Conservatism and the propertyless -- Part III. The nature of the response -- Intellectual prelude -- The economics of political integration -- Imperial organization -- The defence of British agriculture -- The defence of British industry -- Social reform -- Part IV. Disintegration -- Disintegration -- Appendix 1 : Conservative MPs supporting fair trade in the 1880s -- Appendix 2 : Conservative representatives of middle- and mixed-class London and South-East suburban seats -- Appendix 3 : Members of the Compatriots' Club -- Appendix 4 : Members of the Unionist Social Reform Committee.
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| Abstract
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The Crisis of Conservatism offers a powerful new interpretation of Conservative party history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Based on extensive research into the activities and writings of politicians, intellectuals, journalists and economists, this study brings together in a bold synthesis the economic, social, intellectual and political history of Conservatism. It shows that the Conservative party faced a number of serious problems which emerged in the late nineteenth century and reached a peak in the Edwardian period. How was the party of the land to effect the transition to being the party of property in general? How was the party of property to survive in an electoral system increasingly dominated by the propertyless? How was the party of property to cope with the emergent challenge of Socialism? How was the party of Empire to respond to Britain's apparent decline as an imperial and economic power? The author demonstrates that these problems created intense debate within the Conservative party over the role of the State in economy and society, over the optimum path of British economic development, over the future of empire, over the Conservative constituency and over the nature of Conservatism itself.
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Conservative Party (Great Britain)-- History.
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Conservative party (GB)-- Histoire.
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Conservative Party (Great Britain)
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Konservative Partei Großbritannien
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Konservative Partei, Großbritannien
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Conservatism-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Conservatism-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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Conservatism.
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Konservativismus
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Partis politiques-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire.
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Politics and government
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Konservativismus.
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Conservative Party (Groot-Brittannië)
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 1837-1901.
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 1901-1936.
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Grande-Bretagne, Politique et gouvernement, 1837-1901.
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Grande-Bretagne, Politique et gouvernement, 1901-1936.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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Großbritannien.
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| Dewey Classification
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324.24104
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| LC Classification
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DA560.G74 1995
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| NLM classification
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15.70bcl
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